【跟着演讲学英语】美国前总统奥巴马2026演讲：迷茫时的信念
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 0:05 | Hello, Chicago, sweet home, Chicago. | 你好,芝加哥,甜蜜的家乡,芝加哥。 |
| 0:13 | Please have a seat. | 请坐 |
| 0:14 | Thank you, Punihi, for that outstanding introduction. | 谢谢你,普尼希, 出色的介绍。 |
| 0:22 | President and Mrs. Bush, President and Secretary Clinton, thank you for being with us today | 总统和克林顿国务卿布什总统和夫人感谢你今天与我们在一起。 |
| 0:29 | and for your devotion to our country. | 以及你对我们国家的奉献 |
| 0:36 | And President and Dr. Biden, thank you for this steadfast partnership for eight years. | 总统和拜登博士,感谢你8年来的坚定伙伴关系。 |
| 0:47 | Joe, we started as running mates and ended as family. | Joe 我们从竞选伙伴开始 以家庭身份结束 |
| 0:54 | And we would not be here without you. | 没有你,我们不会在这里。 |
| 0:57 | And we are grateful. | 我们很感激。 |
| 1:04 | To our amazing foundation staff and our amazing board, | 敬我们惊人的基金会工作人员和我们惊人的董事会, |
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| 1 | Hello, Chicago, sweet home, Chicago. | 你好,芝加哥,甜蜜的家乡,芝加哥。 |
| 2 | Please have a seat. | 请坐 |
| 3 | Thank you, Punihi, for that outstanding introduction. | 谢谢你,普尼希, 出色的介绍。 |
| 4 | President and Mrs. Bush, President and Secretary Clinton, thank you for being with us today | 总统和克林顿国务卿布什总统和夫人感谢你今天与我们在一起。 |
| 5 | and for your devotion to our country. | 以及你对我们国家的奉献 |
| 6 | And President and Dr. Biden, thank you for this steadfast partnership for eight years. | 总统和拜登博士,感谢你8年来的坚定伙伴关系。 |
| 7 | Joe, we started as running mates and ended as family. | Joe 我们从竞选伙伴开始 以家庭身份结束 |
| 8 | And we would not be here without you. | 没有你,我们不会在这里。 |
| 9 | And we are grateful. | 我们很感激。 |
| 10 | To our amazing foundation staff and our amazing board, | 敬我们惊人的基金会工作人员和我们惊人的董事会, |
| 11 | to Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, thank you for making this center possible. | 给普里茨克州长,约翰逊市长, 感谢你使这个中心成为可能。 |
| 12 | To congressional leaders and foreign dignitaries who've made the trip, | 国会领导人和出访的外国政要 |
| 13 | I cherish our partnership together and all we've got accomplished together. | 我珍惜我们的伙伴关系 和我们一起完成的一切 |
| 14 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 15 | 对Michelle来说 她做错了我 | |
| 16 | She wouldn't let me see her speech. | 她不让我看她的演讲 |
| 17 | She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway. | 她知道她要把我弄得一团糟 她还是做了 |
| 18 | But she's always made me better. | 但她总是让我好起来 |
| 19 | And I could not be more grateful. | 我实在感激不尽 |
| 20 | And to Sasha and Malia, what can I say? | 和萨沙和马利亚, 我能说什么? |
| 21 | You mean everything to me. | 你对我意味着一切。 |
| 22 | More than 40 years ago, on a late summer afternoon in 1985, | 40多年前,在1985年夏末下午, |
| 23 | I arrived here in Chicago entering the city through the very spot where this center now stands. | 我来到芝加哥 从这个中心现在所在的地方进入这个城市 |
| 24 | I can still picture myself heading down what was then Cornell Drive | 我仍然可以想象自己 沿着当时的康奈尔车道前进 |
| 25 | in a janky used car that I'd bought in New York | 我在纽约买的一辆车 |
| 26 | with all my worldly possessions stuffed in the trunk and the backseat | 我所有的东西都塞进后备箱和后座 |
| 27 | so I really couldn't see out of the rearview mirror. | 所以我无法从后视镜中看到 |
| 28 | And I was a safety hazard. | 我是一个安全隐患。 |
| 29 | And I was 23 years old. | 当时我23岁。 |
| 30 | I'd just been hired by a group of churches on the South Side | 我刚刚被南边的教会雇用了 |
| 31 | to help organize a part of the city that had been battered by steel plant closings and chronic neglect. | 帮助组织部分城市遭到钢铁厂关闭和长期忽视的打击. |
| 32 | And I didn't have much organizing experience. | 我没有太多的组织经验。 |
| 33 | Didn't know anybody in Chicago. | 在芝加哥不认识任何人 |
| 34 | But I had been inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. | 但我受到民权运动的启发 |
| 35 | And I knew I wanted to make a difference. | 我知道我想改变一切 |
| 36 | And although I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to do that, | 虽然我不确定我该怎么做 |
| 37 | I was possessed with this abiding faith | 我被这种坚定的信念附身 |
| 38 | that if we could give people more of a say in the forces that govern their lives, | 如果我们能给人们更多的发言权 在管理他们生活的力量, |
| 39 | if we could bridge some of the differences that drove us apart, | 如果我们能弥合导致我们分裂的一些分歧, |
| 40 | then we could build an America where everyone counts | 然后,我们可以建立一个美国 在那里每个人都重视 |
| 41 | and everyone has a fair shot and everyone belongs. | 每个人都有公平的机会,每个人都属于。 |
| 42 | Even a mixed-race kid with a weird backstory and a name nobody could pronounce. | 即使是混血儿 有着怪异的背面故事 名字没人会发音 |
| 43 | And it was here, in this city, a city of broad shoulders, | 它在这里,在这个城市, 一个宽肩的城市, |
| 44 | that I found what I was looking for. | 我找到了我要找的东西 |
| 45 | Day by day, block by block, I got to know the people who lived here. | 日复一日,逐个街区,我要认识住在这里的人. |
| 46 | Their hopes, their dreams, their tragedies and their triumphs. | 他们的希望、梦想、悲剧和胜利。 |
| 47 | I witnessed their resilience in the face of hardship | 我亲眼目睹了他们面对困难的韧性 |
| 48 | and the quiet heroism of a single mom raising her kids and sending them to college on a secretary's salary. | 还有单身母亲的无声英雄主义 抚养孩子 以秘书的工资送他们上大学 |
| 49 | Or the priest electing to stay in the city and open his doors to add rescues, | 或者牧师选择留在城里 打开门补充救援 |
| 50 | even as most of his flock had fled to the suburbs. | 即使他的羊群大多逃到郊区 |
| 51 | I learned that leadership has less to do with titles or rank or chasing attention | 我学会了领导与头衔或军衔 或追逐关注无关 |
| 52 | than with helping others find their voice, reaching their potential. | 而不是帮助别人找到自己的声音,实现他们的潜力。 |
| 53 | And sitting around people's kitchen tables or on their back porches, | 坐在人们的厨房桌子上或者后门廊上 |
| 54 | spending time in church basements and barbershops, | 在教堂地下室和理发店呆过 |
| 55 | I was reminded that everyone has a story to tell if you just care to listen. | 有人提醒我,每个人都有一个故事 说,如果你只是想听。 |
| 56 | Sacred stories, full of courage and humor and grace. | 神圣的故事,充满勇气 幽默和优雅。 |
| 57 | And that each of those stories in some way connected to my own. | 这些故事都跟我有关 |
| 58 | In other words, I found my purpose here and I fortified my faith here. | 换句话说,我在这里找到了我的目的,加强了我的信仰。 |
| 59 | And I found my community here. | 我在这里找到了我的社区。 |
| 60 | Friendships that would last a lifetime. | 友谊将持续一生。 |
| 61 | And I found a girl from the South Side who has been my greatest blessing. | 我找到了一个来自南区的女孩 我最大的祝福。 |
| 62 | Michelle and I, our wedding reception was over at South Shore Cultural Center. | 米歇尔和我 我们的婚礼招待会在南岸文化中心结束 |
| 63 | You could walk from here. | 你可以从这里走出去。 |
| 64 | Our daughters were born right down the street. | 我们的女儿生在街上 |
| 65 | This is where we bought our first home. | 我们在这里买了第一座房子 |
| 66 | This is where our kids took their first steps. | 这是我们的孩子迈出第一步的地方。 |
| 67 | This is where I launched my candidacy for the Illinois State Senate | 我在这里竞选伊利诺伊州参议院议员 |
| 68 | over at the Ramada Inn on Lakeshore Drive, serving pretzels and soda, | 在湖岸大道的拉玛达客栈 供应脆饼和苏打水 |
| 69 | embarking on the path that ultimately and improbably led to this day. | 走上最终和不可能导致今天的道路。 |
| 70 | So for me, this center could not be any place else. | 因此,对我来说,这个中心不可能是任何其他地方。 |
| 71 | It's an expression of thanks. | 示现报恩. |
| 72 | An acknowledgement that so much of what I hold most dear, | 承认我最珍爱的 |
| 73 | I owe to the people of this city and the people of these surrounding neighborhoods. | 我欠这个城市的人 和这些周围街区的人 |
| 74 | And it's why we designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum. | 这就是为什么我们设计了这个中心 而不是一个没有生命的陵墓。 |
| 75 | I am too young for that. | 我太年轻了 |
| 76 | Not just a place to see Michelle's dresses, | 不只是看蜜雪儿衣服的地方 |
| 77 | although I understand that will be the top attraction. | 虽然我知道那将是最吸引人的。 |
| 78 | We wanted it to be a vibrant, living celebration of community, | 我们希望它是一个充满活力,活生生的庆祝社区, |
| 79 | where we can learn together and share the joys of art and music and sport and play. | 在那里我们可以一起学习 分享艺术和音乐的快乐 体育和游戏 |
| 80 | Because it's in those moments that we're reminded of our common humanity | 因为正是在这些时刻 我们被提醒了 我们共同的人性 |
| 81 | and strengthen the bonds of trust that not only make our lives richer, | 并强化信任纽带 不仅使我们的生活更加丰富, |
| 82 | but make our democracy stronger. | 但是要使我们的民主更加强大。 |
| 83 | Now, we also wanted this center to be a celebration of the extraordinary public servants, | 现在,我们也希望这个中心 是一个庆祝杰出的公务员, |
| 84 | many of whom are here today, that made this journey possible. | 他们中的许多人今天在这里,这使得这一旅程成为可能。 |
| 85 | Some of you helped get me elected. | 你们中有些人帮助我当选。 |
| 86 | Some of you I had to talk into joining my administration. | 你们中有些人我不得不谈谈加入我的政府 |
| 87 | Some of you were seasoned veterans who helped show a rookie president the ropes. | 你们中有些人是老练的老兵 他们帮新人当过新人总裁 |
| 88 | But a lot of you were younger than I was when I first drove into this city. | 但你们中许多人比我年轻 当我开车进入这个城市。 |
| 89 | We're all a bit older now. | 我们都老了点 |
| 90 | Many of you have children of your own, even grandchildren. | 你们很多人都有自己的孩子 甚至孙子 |
| 91 | But the passage of time has only deepened my admiration for your talent and your dedication and your skill. | 但时间的流逝只加深了我对你的才华和奉献精神以及技巧的钦佩. |
| 92 | It's only deepened my gratitude for how much you and your families sacrificed to make this country better. | 这只会加深我对你和家人为了让这个国家更美好而牺牲的感激之情. |
| 93 | So when you visit this center today or in days to come, | 所以,当你今天或以后访问这个中心时, |
| 94 | I hope you see yourselves and your hard work reflected in every exhibit. | 我希望你们看到你们自己和辛勤工作在每一个展览中得到反映。 |
| 95 | And I hope you take pride in what we accomplished together. | 我希望你能为我们共同的成就感到自豪。 |
| 96 | You made that happen. | 这是你促成的 |
| 97 | Now, of course, we did not accomplish everything we set out to do. | 现在,当然,我们没有完成我们所要做的一切。 |
| 98 | No administration does. | 没有行政部门知道。 |
| 99 | Some of the exhibits reflect unfinished business. | 一些展品反映了未完成的工作。 |
| 100 | In some cases, my own shortcomings and mistakes. | 在某些情况下,我自己的缺点和错误。 |
| 101 | In some cases, because as a sign I kept on the Resolute Desk Red, hard things are hard. | 在某些情况下,因为作为一个标志,我 保留在坚定的服务台红色, 硬的东西是困难的。 |
| 102 | And that's especially true in a big, raucous, diverse, argumentative democracy like the United States of America. | 这在像美国这样的大,粗糙,多样,有争论的民主国家中尤为如此. |
| 103 | Everybody's got an opinion. | 每个人都有意见。 |
| 104 | And that means getting stuff done involves reconciling the demands of a couple of hundred million people. | 这意味着做一些事情需要协调 几亿人的需求。 |
| 105 | Democracy can be frustrating. | 民主可能令人沮丧。 |
| 106 | It can be slow. | 其能缓也. |
| 107 | It can be inefficient. | 可能效率低下。 |
| 108 | And yet more than anything, I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is | 然而,我更希望这个中心能够 证明我们的民主是多么特殊,多么珍贵 |
| 109 | and remind us what we can achieve when we embrace our shared responsibilities as citizens. | 并提醒我们,当我们接受作为公民的共同责任时,我们能够取得什么成就。 |
| 110 | And since we're a few weeks away from America's 250th birthday, it is worth remembering just how radical the whole idea of self-government really was back in 1776. | 由于我们离美国250岁生日还有几周, 值得记住的是, 整个自治思想在1776年是多么激进。 |
| 111 | To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies. | 至此,人类历史是一个征服和种姓以及僵硬的等级制度的故事. |
| 112 | A world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage, and the many were ruled by the few. | 一个强者主宰弱者的世界,权力和财富与地位通过世系流传,许多人被少数人统治. |
| 113 | But out of the fire and steel of a revolution, a different story took flight. | 但是,从革命的火和钢中,一个不同的故事飞走了. |
| 114 | On this continent, a declaration that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, | 在这个大陆上,由造物主赋予我们不可剥夺的权利,宣布我们都是平等的, |
| 115 | and that in the newly independent United States, there will be no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects, but only citizens, | 在新独立的美国,没有国王或领主,没有农奴或臣民,只有公民, |
| 116 | each of us free to pursue our own version of happiness and able to determine our collective fate through an elected, representative government. | 我们每个人都可以自由地追求我们自己的幸福,能够通过一个选举产生的有代表性的政府决定我们的集体命运。 |
| 117 | It had not been done. | 还没有这样做。 |
| 118 | And because it hadn't been done before, the success of this experiment was never a given. | 并且由于它以前没有做过,这个实验的成功从来不是给定的. |
| 119 | In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who own property. | 在组成我们的联盟时,创始人远远没有履行《宣言》的承诺,使奴隶制不受破坏,使各州能够将特许权限制在拥有财产的白人身上。 |
| 120 | But in drafting a Constitution and a Bill of Rights, they did have the foresight, the genius, to provide us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect. | 但是,在起草《宪法》和《权利法案》时,他们确实有远见,才华横溢,为我们提供了一个框架,使每一代人都能使我们的结合更加完美。 |
| 121 | And over more than two centuries, through petitions and protests, marches and strikes, moral appeals from the pulpit and conversations at the family dinner table, | 两个多世纪以来, 通过请愿和抗议,游行和罢工, 精神呼吁 以及家庭晚餐桌的对话, |
| 122 | men and women from all walks of life, of every color, every faith, every region, took up the cause of democracy and made it their own, | 来自各行各业的男女, 每种肤色, 每一种信仰, 每一个地区, 走上民主的事业 并创造了自己的, |
| 123 | until we the people came to include not just some of us, but all of us. | 直到我们人民来到 不仅包括我们的一部分, 而且包括我们所有人。 |
| 124 | And that's why the story we tell in this building begins not with Michelle's origins or my origins, but with our nations, | 这就是为什么我们在这栋建筑里讲的故事 不是从米歇尔的起源或我的起源开始的 而是从我们的国家开始的 |
| 125 | with a founding or a print of the Declaration of Independence, and a pen and ink stand used by Frederick Douglass, | 还有弗雷德里克·道格拉斯用的笔和墨水亭 |
| 126 | Lincoln's Bible, and a pamphlet by Ida B. | 林肯的圣经,和爱达B的一本小册子. |
| 127 | Wells, suffragist buttons, and a hard hat worn by FDR's Labor Secretary, Francis Perkins. | Wells, suffragist 纽扣, 以及FDR的劳工部长弗朗西斯·珀金斯戴的硬帽子. |
| 128 | And it's why the exhibits here focus not just on policies, but on the shared values that make democracy possible. | 这就是为什么这里的展品不仅关注政策, 也关注让民主成为可能的共同价值观。 |
| 129 | A belief in the intrinsic dignity and worth of all people, and that no one is above the law or beneath its protection. | 相信所有人的固有尊严和价值,相信任何人都不能凌驾于法律之上或不受法律的保护。 |
| 130 | A belief in checks and balances in our government, and an accountability that comes with an independent judiciary and a robust free press. | 相信我国政府的制衡,以及独立司法机构和强有力的新闻自由带来的问责制。 |
| 131 | A belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our Constitution. | 相信我们的军事和执法不效忠于任何总统或政党,而是效忠于人民和我们的宪法。 |
| 132 | A belief in the peaceful transfer of power after the people have spoken in fair and free elections, | 相信在人民在公平和自由的选举中发言后和平移交权力, |
| 133 | recognizing that in a large, complicated society like ours, no group or faction gets its way 100% of the time. | 承认在像我们这样的大而复杂的社会里, 任何团体或派别都不可能百分百地得到它的方式。 |
| 134 | And a belief that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, kindness, compassion, a sense of duty and honor, | 相信品格、诚实、正直、善良、慈悲、责任感和荣誉感 |
| 135 | those things matter in our public dealings, just as they do in our private lives. | 那些事情对我们的公开交易很重要 就像我们私人生活中一样 |
| 136 | These are not, these are the values and traditions I believe in. | 这些不是,这些是我所信仰的价值观和传统。 |
| 137 | And they are not Republican or Democratic values. | 它们不是共和党或民主党的价值观。 |
| 138 | They are American values we can all share, regardless of party. | 这些都是美国价值观,我们都可以分享,无论党派如何。 |
| 139 | Values every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold. | 今天在座的每一位总统,同我们一样不同,都尽力维护这些价值观。 |
| 140 | Values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in, no less than I did. | 约翰·麦凯恩和米特·罗姆尼相信的价值 和我一样 |
| 141 | It is our greatest inheritance, the story of America at its best, because it reflects a basic faith in the decency of our fellow citizens. | 这是我们最大的遗产,美国的故事最好,因为它反映了对同胞体面的基本信念。 |
| 142 | And the possibility that despite all of our differences, we can see each other and understand one another and make common cause together. | 而这种可能性,尽管我们有种种分歧,我们还是可以相见,互相理解,共同实现事业. |
| 143 | That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience. | 我希望这个中心的每个访客 都从他们的体验中消失 |
| 144 | And that's why if you come for a day and you don't have time to see everything, I would urge you to skip the clips of my speeches. | 这就是为什么如果你来一天 并且你没有时间看到一切, 我会敦促你 跳过我的演讲片段。 |
| 145 | You have heard them all before, in favor of the stories of those ordinary citizens who helped make that change happen. | 你们以前都听到过,赞成那些帮助实现这一变革的普通公民的故事。 |
| 146 | The cancer survivor who feared rising premiums would force her out of her home and was brave enough to speak out about it. | 担心保费上涨的癌症幸存者会把她赶出家门,勇敢地说出来。 |
| 147 | She's why we pushed so hard for health care reform. | 她就是我们为什么如此大力推动医疗改革的原因. |
| 148 | The small business owner trying to keep the lights on. | 小生意主试图保持灯光。 |
| 149 | The teenage girl who told me she was worried her dad might lose his job in the auto crisis. | 那个十几岁女孩告诉我 她担心她爸爸在汽车危机中可能失业 |
| 150 | They're why we focus so relentlessly on pulling our economy back from the Great Recession. | 这就是我们为什么如此无情地 专注于把经济从大衰退中拉回来。 |
| 151 | The wounded warrior overcoming debilitating injuries. | 受伤的战士克服了伤害 |
| 152 | The gay Air Force major serving her country, even when forced to hide who she was. | 同性恋空军少校为她的国家服务 即使她被迫隐藏自己是谁 |
| 153 | They're why we worked to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell and care for those who've worn our country's uniform and do right by our military families. | 他们就是我们努力结束这一切的原因 不要问,不要告诉和关心那些穿了我国军装,对我们的军队家庭做对的人. |
| 154 | It's their voices that led to our successes. | 正是他们的声音导致了我们的成功。 |
| 155 | And while going through the exhibits, I'd also ask you to listen to the voices of people around the world who've been inspired by American ideas. | 在看展品时,我也会请大家聆听世界各地受美国思想启发的人们的声音. |
| 156 | Yes, America has made its share of foreign policy mistakes. | 是的,美国犯下了外交政策错误。 |
| 157 | Our actions have not always matched our rhetoric. | 我们的行动并不总是与我们的言论相符。 |
| 158 | We've learned that we can't solve every conflict or solve or stop every atrocity around the globe. | 我们了解到,我们无法解决每一个冲突,也无法解决或制止全球的每一个暴行. |
| 159 | But at our best, the United States has been an undeniable force for good in the world. | 但是,从我们最好的方面来说,美国一直是世界上不可否认的善良力量。 |
| 160 | And what I heard on every continent as president is that when America, when American foreign policy lives up to our highest ideals, | 我作为总统在每一个大陆上听到的是 当美国外交政策坚持我们的最高理想时 |
| 161 | when we champion human rights and democracy and the sound stewardship of our planet, | 当我们捍卫人权和民主,捍卫对地球的健全管理时, |
| 162 | when we take the lead in eradicating disease and feeding the hungry and educating children, | 当我们带头消灭疾病、喂饱饥饿的人和教育儿童时, |
| 163 | when we encourage cooperation between nations instead of trying to dominate and bully and squeeze every advantage just because we can. | 我们鼓励国与国之间的合作,而不是仅仅因为我们能够控制、欺负和挤压一切优势。 |
| 164 | And most of all, when we show through our example here at home that even a country as big and diverse as ours can make democracy work, | 最重要的是,当我们通过我们的例子 在国内显示, 即使一个像我们这样的大而多样的国家 能够使民主发挥作用, |
| 165 | it turns out all nations, including ours, become more prosperous and secure. | 结果,所有国家,包括我们的国家,都变得更加繁荣和安全。 |
| 166 | And the world gets a little bit brighter. | 这个世界变得更光明一点。 |
| 167 | I recognize it's been almost a decade since I left office. | 我承认我离职已经快十年了 |
| 168 | In that time, we have lived through more war and a terrible pandemic, economic disruptions, | 当时,我们经历了更多的战争和可怕的流行病、经济混乱, |
| 169 | mass protests, backlash against mass protests, political conflicts that have shaken the very foundation of our democracy. | 群众抗议,反对群众抗议,政治冲突动摇了我国民主的基础. |
| 170 | We've witnessed a technological revolution that promises remarkable discoveries, could revolutionize medicine, | 我们目睹了一场技术革命, 它保证了显著的发现, 可能使医学革命, |
| 171 | but is also accelerating inequality that puts all the world's information in the palm of our hands, | 同时也在加剧不平等 把世界所有的信息都掌握在我们手中, |
| 172 | but somehow makes it harder for us to tell a truth from a lie that connects us instantly like never before, | 但不知何故,我们更难说出真相 从一个谎言 连接我们立即 像以前一样, |
| 173 | even as it makes us more distrustful and more withdrawn and more fearful and more isolated from each other. | 即使它使我们更不信任 更撤退 更害怕 更彼此孤立 |
| 174 | It's a lot. | 甚处来. |
| 175 | For millions of people in this country and around the world, the future feels uncertain, the ground unstable beneath our feet. | 对于这个国家和世界各地的数百万人来说,未来感觉不确定,脚下地面不稳定. |
| 176 | And as algorithms keep feeding us a steady stream of distraction and outrage, | 而随着算法不断喂养我们 不断的分心和愤怒, |
| 177 | as only the loudest, most extreme voices get attention, fanning our prejudices, appealing to our basest, most tribal instincts, | 因为只有最响亮,最极端的声音 得到注意, 煽动我们的偏见, |
| 178 | it's tempting to give in to cynicism and even despair, to stop trying. | 它诱惑着屈服于愤世嫉俗甚至绝望,停止尝试. |
| 179 | We start thinking that appeals to democracy and civic participation are corny and old-fashioned and boring and naive, | 我们开始认为对民主和公民参与的呼吁是粗鲁的、过时的、无聊的和天真的, |
| 180 | that the very idea of working on behalf of the common good is a sucker's bet, and that in order for us to win, somebody else has got to lose. | 代表共同利益工作的想法 是一个傻瓜的赌注, 而为了我们赢, 别人必须输。 |
| 181 | 我了解,我记得 I get it. | |
| 182 | I am not immune to anger or doubt. | 我也不能免于愤怒或怀疑。 |
| 183 | But I do know this. | 但我知道这一点。 |
| 184 | When we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters, that citizenship matters, that our collective voices matter, | 当我们对彼此失去信心时,当我们不再相信 投票很重要,公民权很重要, 我们的集体声音很重要, |
| 185 | that how we treat each other no longer matters, then we give away our power to decide our own futures. | 我们如何对待彼此不再重要, 然后我们放弃了决定自己未来的权力。 |
| 186 | We open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless or the most fearful among us, | 我们为我们中最无情或最不小心或最害怕的人敞开大门, |
| 187 | who see some groups and some people as more equal than others, | 他们认为一部分人和一部分人比另一部分人更平等, |
| 188 | and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies and keep those who are different in their place. | 且视政府为一无余之道,以分赃利,以惩敌人,使异人守其位. |
| 189 | I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end. | 我不认为这是美国的故事 最终占上风。 |
| 190 | I don't believe it because for us to give up, for us to give in now, after all this country's been through, | 我不相信 因为我们放弃 现在放弃 这个国家经历了这么多 |
| 191 | to cynicism and division would be a betrayal of our founding ideals, a betrayal of our faith. | 背叛我们的创始理想 背叛我们的信仰 |
| 192 | And I remain convinced that the overwhelming majority of Americans feel the same way, that as unsettled as we are, | 我仍然相信,绝大多数美国人 也一样觉得, 和我们一样不安, |
| 193 | people aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. | 人们不会寻找永远的愤怒和分裂 |
| 194 | They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, | 他们正在寻求公平、常识和相互尊重, |
| 195 | that deep in our gut we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away. | 内心深处,我们想找到一种方法 再次向对方,而不是更远。 |
| 196 | I believe this because I've seen it all across our country, | 我相信这一点,因为我看到 在我国各地, |
| 197 | in cities that have worked together to reclaim their streets from crime, | 在城市中,他们共同努力,使街道摆脱犯罪, |
| 198 | in rural communities that have rebuilt their economy, | 在重建经济的农村社区, |
| 199 | in businesses that are finding new ways to make housing affordable, | 正在寻找新方法使住房价格低廉的企业, |
| 200 | in those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who brave frigid temperatures, | 在那些在双城的普通人中,谁勇敢的寒冷温度, |
| 201 | risk their own safety standing shoulder to shoulder to look out for their neighbors | 冒着自身安全的风险 肩并肩地照顾邻居 |
| 202 | and sometimes look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do. | 有时候会照顾陌生人 因为他们知道这样做是对的 |
| 203 | I've seen it, and I've seen it in a new generation of leaders, here and around the world, | 我见过它,我看到它 在新一代的领导人, 在这里和世界各地, |
| 204 | like Puniha and Addison, leaders who are determined to make our governments | 像普尼哈和艾迪生一样, 决心建立政府的领导人 |
| 205 | and our economies and our societies work for everyone. | 我们的经济和社会为每个人服务。 |
| 206 | Obama Foundation leaders like Hannah, a food corps member from rural Ohio | 奥巴马基金会的领袖,如来自俄亥俄州农村的食品团成员Hannah |
| 207 | who's helping ensure every child has access to at least one nourishing meal. | 他们正在帮助确保每个孩子 至少有一顿营养餐。 |
| 208 | Or George, an entrepreneur whose nonprofit helps get unused, unexpired medicine, | 或者George, 一个非盈利的企业家 帮助获得未用, 未过期的药物, |
| 209 | often at no cost to people who need it. | 对需要的人来说,常常是免费的。 |
| 210 | Or Zuzana, a human rights lawyer in Poland who's won more than 30 landmark cases. | 或祖扎纳,波兰一位人权律师,他赢得了超过30个具有里程碑意义的案件. |
| 211 | There are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of these young people out there | 外面有成千上万,几万,几十万这些年轻人 |
| 212 | making a difference right now. | 改变现在。 |
| 213 | And this center is devoted to lifting up their stories, | 这个中心致力于提升他们的故事, |
| 214 | giving them the tools and support they need to expand their impact. | 为他们提供扩大影响所需的工具和支持。 |
| 215 | For while our work is nonpartisan, we are not values neutral. | 因为虽然我们的工作是无党派的,但我们不是价值观中立的。 |
| 216 | We have a point of view. | 我们有一个观点。 |
| 217 | The exhibits in this center are not meant to evoke nostalgia for some gauzy, bygone era, | 这个中心的展品 并不是要引起怀旧 对于一些纱布,过去的时代, |
| 218 | some unattainable past that we can dream about and say, oh, we miss you, Barack. | 一些无法实现的过去 我们可以梦见 并说,哦,我们想你,巴拉克。 |
| 219 | They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible | 他们是为了提醒我们能成为什么样的人 提醒我们能成为什么样的人 |
| 220 | so we can forge ahead, clear-eyed and confident, and do the work that still needs to be done. | 这样,我们就能向前看,目光明晰,充满信心,并完成仍然需要完成的工作。 |
| 221 | We can learn from the past, but America's story isn't frozen in the past. | 我们可以从过去中吸取教训,但美国的故事在过去并没有冻结. |
| 222 | It has chapters yet to be written, not by one person or a few people, | 它的章节还没有写出来, 不是一个人或几个人, |
| 223 | not by Barack and Michelle or anybody with a fancy title or a high office, but by all of us. | 不是由巴拉克和米歇尔 或任何有名望或高级职务的人, 而是我们所有人。 |
| 224 | You know, one of the things a lot of presidential libraries now have in common | 你知道,很多总统图书馆 现在有一个共同点 |
| 225 | is a replica of the Oval Office. | 是Oval办公室的复制品。 |
| 226 | And if you take a peek at the one inside this building, you will see some objects | 如果你偷看这栋楼里的那个 你会看到一些物体 |
| 227 | that carried some special meaning for me during the time that I was in office. | 在我上任期间,这对我很重要 |
| 228 | There's a program that a friend from the South Side gave me | 南区一个朋友给我的节目 |
| 229 | that he had retrieved from the 1963 march on Washington. | 他从1963年的华盛顿游行中恢复过来了 |
| 230 | He was there. | 他当时在场 |
| 231 | There's a Norman Rockwell painting of the Statue of Liberty | 诺曼·罗克威尔画了自由女神像 |
| 232 | with workers hanging on ropes, burnishing the torch that she holds aloft. | 将她拿着的火炬烧掉 |
| 233 | And on the rug, you'll read words from some of America's greatest leaders, | 在地毯上,你会读一些 美国最伟大的领导人的话, |
| 234 | including a quote that inspired that arch that you see right there | 包括一个引文 启发了那个拱门 你在那里看到的 |
| 235 | at the south end of the plaza by Martin Purdy. | 在广场的南端 马丁·普迪。 |
| 236 | The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. | 道德宇宙的弧线很长,但它向正义弯曲. |
| 237 | It's a quote that was often invoked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., | 这是马丁·路德·金博士经常引用的引文, |
| 238 | but it originally comes from a Boston minister's sermon more than 170 years ago. | 但最初它来自170多年前波士顿部长的布道. |
| 239 | And at the time, the abolitionist cause seemed lost. | 当时,废奴主义的事业似乎已经失败。 |
| 240 | The Compromise of 1850 had made harboring fugitive slaves a crime under federal law | 1850年的妥协使窝藏逃亡奴隶成为联邦法律下的罪行 |
| 241 | even in those states that had abolished slavery. | 甚至在那些废除奴隶制的州里 |
| 242 | And in a case that garnered national attention, a young fugitive in Boston | 一个在波士顿的年轻逃犯 |
| 243 | had been seized and tried and marched to the wharf by hundreds of armed officers | 被数百名武装军官抓获并试图赶到码头 |
| 244 | where he was summarily put on a ship bound for the South | 他被立即送上一艘驶往南方的船 |
| 245 | where he would remain in shackles and chains. | 在那里,他要留在枷锁和枷锁中。 |
| 246 | And it was a moment of profound uncertainty and despair, | 这是一段充满不确定性和绝望的时刻, |
| 247 | a moment the minister called darker than any New England had witnessed. | 大臣称黑暗的一刻 比任何新英格兰人目睹的都更黑暗 |
| 248 | We do not see, Reverend Theodore Parker observed, that justice is always done on Earth. | 我们没有看到 Theodore Parker牧师说 正义总是在地球上实现的 |
| 249 | Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, | 许多金牛是富足的,是精良的,是荣耀的, |
| 250 | while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment. | 而正义的人是贫穷的,是憎恶的,是受刑罚的。 |
| 251 | I do not pretend, the preacher said, to understand the moral universe. | 牧师说,我不假装理解道德世界。 |
| 252 | The ark is a long one. | 方舟为长. |
| 253 | My eye reaches but little ways. | 我的眼睛伸向了很小的路。 |
| 254 | I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight. | 我无法计算曲线 和完成数字 通过视觉的经验。 |
| 255 | I can divide it by conscience. | 我可以按照良心来划分 |
| 256 | But from what I see, I am sure it bends towards justice. | 但从我所见,我确信它向正义倾斜。 |
| 257 | The good Reverend was under no illusions about the perils and obstacles facing the abolitionist cause. | 好牧师对废奴主义事业面临的危险和障碍没有幻想。 |
| 258 | His words offered no easy answers, no comforting assurances that he or his congregation would live | 他的话没有容易的答案,也没有令人安慰的保证他或他的会众会活下来 |
| 259 | to see the progress they so desperately sought. | 以看到他们如此渴望的进展。 |
| 260 | Rather, his was a declaration of faith, a defiant call | 相反,他是一个信仰宣言,一个悖逆的召唤 |
| 261 | not to abandon hope or give way to fear, but to stay true to our better selves and true to one another | 不要放弃希望或让位给恐惧,而是要忠于我们更美好的自我,忠于彼此 |
| 262 | and to keep fighting to fulfill the promise of this nation, even in the face of cruelty and bitter disappointment, | 即使面对残酷和痛苦的失望 |
| 263 | even in the face of impossible lives. | 即使面对不可能的生活。 |
| 264 | It is that spirit that we open this center today, | 正是这种精神,我们今天打开了这个中心, |
| 265 | the same spirit that so many of you showed all those years ago, | 和你们这么多年前一样 |
| 266 | the same spirit that inspired generations of Americans to meet the challenges of their time, | 同样的精神激励了几代美国人 应对他们时代的挑战, |
| 267 | the same spirit that is alive and well here on the South Side of Chicago, | 同样的精神是活着和良好的 在这里芝加哥南区, |
| 268 | the same spirit that will see America and the world through its present trials. | 同样的精神 将看到美国和世界 通过其目前的考验。 |
| 269 | There is a new generation out there, ready to write the next chapter of our story. | 外面有新一代人,准备写下我们的故事的一章。 |
| 270 | We intend to help them do it, and we ask that you join us. | 我们打算帮助他们这样做,我们请你加入我们。 |
| 271 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 272 | God bless you. | 上帝保佑你们。 |
| 273 | God bless the United States of America. | 上帝保佑美利坚合众国。 |
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